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Can rejections of weak separability be attributed to random measurement errors in the data?

Thomas Elger () and Barry Edward Jones ()

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 99, issue 1, pages 44-47

Abstract: Standard non-parametric weak separability tests do not account for measurement errors in the data. We propose a method to determine if rejections of weak separability obtained using such tests can be attributed to random measurement errors in the quantity data.

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